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Joseph C. Sloane was chair of the art departments at Rutgers University and Bryn Mawr
College before serving as chair of the Art Department at the University of North Carolina
at Chapel Hill, 1950-1974, and director of the Ackland Art Museum at the University
of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1958-1978. The collection includes files relating to Sloane's active participation in numerous
state and national art-related organizations; files relating to his activities at
the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and with the Faculty Assembly of the
University of North Carolina system; material relating to his years on the faculty
at Bryn Mawr College; and various writings and texts of lectures by Sloane relating
to art education and other topics. Organizations substantially represented are the
Association of Art Museum Directors, the College Art Association, the National Council
of Arts in Education, the North Carolina Art Society, the North Carolina Arts Council,
the North Carolina Museum of Art, and the Southeastern College Art Conference.

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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the Joseph C. Sloane Papers #4204, Southern Historical
Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Received from Joseph Sloane in November 1979, November 1982, August 1994 (Acc. 94107),
August 1995 (Acc. 95103), July 1997 (Acc. 97087), August 1997 (Acc. 97107), and August
1998 (Acc. 98187); from the Art Library in March 1998 (Acc. 98038); from Carolyn Allmendinger
of Chapel Hill, N.C., in December 1998 (Acc. 98523); and from the Art Library in June
2007 (Acc. 100682).

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Joseph Curtis Sloane (1909-1998), son of Joseph C. and Julia L. Moss Sloane, was born
8 October 1909, at Pottstown, Pa. As chair of the University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill Department of Art, Sloane was an important leader in promoting art in
North Carolina in the 1960s and 1970s. Sloane helped lead the movement to build the
new North Carolina Museum of Art, which opened in 1983. As director of Ackland Art
Museum, he helped build the collection. During his tenure at Bryn Mawr College in
the 1950s and at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, he served as president
or chair of various art-in-education organizations, such as the National Council of
Arts in Education and the North Carolina Arts Commission. His academic specialties
were nineteenth-century French art and twentieth-century art. The art library in Hanes
Art Center at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is named for him.

This collection consists mostly of records of various art organizations to which Joseph C. Sloane belonged, public lectures, and professional correspondence. While Sloane kept apparently exhaustive records
of his professional duties as curator and professor, there is little material related
to his personal life. The bulk of the collection dates from 1953 to 1978. During these
years, Sloane held several executive positions in national organizations such as the
National Council for Arts in Education and state organizations such as the North Carolina Arts Commission. Additions received since 1989 contain similar materials dating from the 1980s and
1990s as well as earlier material. The additions also contain some material about
Sloane's personal life, including his civic activities in Chapel Hill, N.C.

Speeches and writings by Sloane. Topics are modern and contemporary art history and
art in education. Sloane spoke to both lay and scholarly groups. His writings were
published chiefly in scholarly journals and encyclopedias.

Correspondence is scattered in the early years, but from 1959 to 1978, there are nearly
100 letters per year. Most of the correspondence deals with professional matters,
such as publishing books and articles, attending art history conferences, and other
art history matters.

Sloane served in several executive positions in this organization, including secretary
in 1955, and president in 1956. This is primarily an academic organization. The files
include grant proposals, correspondence with other association members, conference
materials, and committee papers.

Box 3-4

Box 3

Box 4

Expand/collapse Series 4. American Council of Arts in Education, circa 1960-1978.

About 1,050 items.

This group, formerly the National Council of Arts in Education, promotes the arts
in schools and communities. Sloane served in several executive positions, including
president. The files include grant applications, arts brochures, correspondence, conference
materials, and published studies about the arts.

Restriction: RESTRICTED: Materials in this addition must be screened for sensitive
or confidential materials before they can be accessed. Use of these boxes is by appointment
only. To make an appointment, please contact the Manuscripts Department in writing
via email, fax, or U.S. Post.

NOTE: Some overlap with general clippings file above. Association of Art Museum Directors
(Pertains to Joseph C. Sloane's successors as directors of Ackland Museum. Some of
it may be appropriate for filing with Records of the Ackland, in which there is an
AAMD file.)